Song of the Week
OK, so the song of the day idea probably won’t work either, for 2 reasons. Firstly, getting time to update this with something meaningful other than just a YouTube link is unlikely and secondly, I would probably end up struggling to come up with a song for each day that warrants its own post. So, I’ve decided that I’ll save it for when I have a song worthy of talking about.
This week’s song comes from a new Glasgow band, who have been touted by NME. Unlike the usual rubbish that NME seem to like, this band are actually quite good and different to the masses of generic indie band clones out there at the moment. Their sound is probably best compared to New York band, Interpol, though their style is more Joe Strummer.
Anyway, here it is, unfortunately the single version has embedding disabled, so here’s a live TV performance version for embedding purposes:
Glasvegas - Geraldine
The accent comes across quite strongly, which adds to the appeal for me. I had a think about how many other singers keep their accent while singing and couldn’t think of too many. Excluding bog standard English and American accents the bands that immediately came to mind were:
- The Cranberries
- Arctic Monkeys
- The View
Can you think of any others? I’m sure there are lots more, but my brain is not allowing me to think of them at this time!
